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ORDINANCES AND BY-LAWS 




The Columbian University 




Disteiot of Columbia, 



Adopted at the Annual Meeting of the Corporation, 
June 24, 1873. 



WASHINGTON : 

GIBSON BROTHERS, PRINTERS. 

1874. 






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OEDESTAJSTOES AND BY-LAWS 

OF 

he Columbian University 



District of Columbia, 

Adopted at the .Annual Meeting of the Corporation, June 24, 1873. 



CHARTER. 

An Act to incorporate the Columbian College in the District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there 
be erected, and hereby is erected aiid established, in the District 
of Columbia, a College, for the sole and exclusive purpose of edu- 
cating youth in the English, learned, and foreign languages, the 
liberal arts, sciences, and literature ; the style and title of which 
shall be, and hereby is declared to be, "The Columbian College 
in the District of Columbia." 

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said College shall 
be under the management, direction, and government of a num- 
ber of Trustees, not exceeding thirty-one, to be elected triennially, 
by the contributors to the said College, qualified to vote, in such 
manner, and under such limitations and restrictions, as may be 
provided by the ordinances of the College, on the first Monday 
in May ; and that the first Trustees of the said College shall con- 
sist of the following persons, viz : Obadiah B. Brown, Luther 
Rice, Enoch Reynolds, Josiah Meigs, Spencer H. Cone, Daniel 
Brown, Return J. Meigs, Joseph Gibson, Joseph Cone, Thomas 
Corcoran, Burgis Allison, Thomas Sewall, and Joseph Thaw; 
which said Trustees, and their successors, shall forever hereafter 
be, and they are hereby declared to be, one body politic and cor- 



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porate, with perpetual succession, in deed and in law, to all in- 
tents and purposes whatsoever, by the name, style, and title of 
"The Columbian College in the District of Columbia," by which 
name and title they, the said Trustees, and their successors, shall 
be competent and capable, at law and in equity, to take to them- 
selves and their successors, for the use of the said College, any 
estate, in any messuage, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, 
chattels, moneys, and other effects, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, 
conveyance, assurance, will, devise, or bequest, of any person or 
persons whatsoever : Provided, The same do not exceed, in the 
whole, the yearly value of twenty.five thousand dollars ; and the 
same messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and estate, real 
and personal, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, assure, demise, and 
to farm let, and place out on interest, for the use of the said Col- 
lege, in such manner as to them, or at least nine of them, shall 
seem most beneficial to the Institution, and to receive the rents, 
issues, and profits, income and interest of the same, and to apply 
the same to the proper use and benefit of the said College ; and 
by the same name to sue, commence, prosecute, and defend, im- 
plead and be impleaded, in any courts of law and equity, and in 
all manner of suits and actions whatsoever, and generally, by and 
in the same name, to do and transact all and every, the business 
touching or concerning the premises. 

Sec 3. And he it further enacted, That the said Trustees shall 
cause to be made for their use one common seal, with such de- 
vices and inscriptions thereon as they shall think proper, under 
and by which all deeds, diplomas, certificates, and acts of the said 
College, shall pass and be authenticated ; and the same seal, at 
their pleasure, to break, and devise a new one. 

Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees, or five 
of them at least, shall meet at the College, on College Hill in the 
said District of Columbia, on the first Monday in March next, for 
the purpose of concerting and agreeing to such business as, in 
consequence of this act, shall be proper to be laid before them at 
the commencement of the work they have undertaken, and shall 
have power to adjourn from time to time, as they shall see cause, 
to any other times or places, for the purpose of perfecting the 
same. That there shall be a stated meeting of the said Trustees 



held twice in every year at least, at such place and time as the 
said Trustees, or a quorum thereof, shall appoint, of which pub- 
lic notice shall be given, after the first meeting, at least twenty 
days before [the] time of such intended meeting, whenever the 
the President, to be appointed by them, shall deem the business 
of the Institution to require the same, and give due notice thereof, 
which he is hereby authorized to do ; and if at such stated or oc- 
casional meetings, five of the said Trustees shall not be present, 
those of them who shall be present shall have power to adjourn 
the meeting to any other day, as fully and effectually, to all in- 
tents and purposes, as if the whole number of Trustees for the 
time being were present ; but, if five or more of the said Trustees 
shall meet at the said appointed times, or at any other time of 
adjournment, then such five of the said Trustees shall be a Board 
or quorum, and a majority of the votes of them shall be capable 
of doing and transacting all the business and concerns of the 
said College not otherwise provided for by this act ; and particu- 
larly of making and enacting ordinances for the government of 
the said College ; of electing and appointing the President, pro- 
fessors, and tutors, for the said College ; of agreeing with them 
for their salaries and stipends, and removing them for misconduct, 
or breach of the laws of the Institution ; of appointing committees 
of their own body to carry into execution all and every the res- 
olutions of the Board ; of appointing a President, Treasurer, Sec- 
retary, Stewards, Managers, and other necessary and customary 
officers, for taking care of the estate and managing the concerns 
of the Corporation ; and, generally, a majority of voices of the 
Board, or quorum of the said Trustees, consisting of five persons 
at least, at any semi-annual, occasional, or adjourned meeting, 
after notice given as aforesaid, shall determine all matters and 
things (although the same be not herein particularly mentioned) 
which shall occasionally arise, and be incidentally necessary to be 
determined and transacted by the said Trustees : Provided, al- 
ways, That no ordinances shall be of force which shall be repug- 
nant to this Charter, or to the laws of the District of Columbia. 

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the head or chief mas- 
ter for the said College shall be called and styled " The Presi- 
dent," and the masters thereof shall be called "Professors and 



Tutors," but neither President, professors, or tutor's, while they 
remain such, shall ever be capable of the office of Trustee. 

Sec. 6. And be it farther enacted, That the President, pro- 
fessors, and tutors, or a majority of them, shall be called and 
styled " The Faculty of the College," which Faculty shall have 
the power of enforcing the rules and regulations adopted by the 
Trustees for the government of the pupils, by rewarding or cen- 
suring them, and, finally, by suspending such of them as, after 
repeated admonitions, shall continue disobedient and refractory, 
until a determination of a quorum of the Trustees can be had ; 
and of granting and confirming, by and with the approbation and 
consent of the Board of Trustees, signified by their mandamus, 
such degrees in the liberal arts and sciences, to such pupils of 
the Institution, or others, who, by their proficiency in learning, 
or other meritorious distinction, they shall think entitled to them, 
as are usually granted and conferred in colleges : and to grant, 
to such graduates, diplomas or certificates, under their common 
seal, and signed by the Faculty, to authenticate and perpetuate 
the memory of such graduation. 

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That persons of every relig- 
ious denomination shall be capable of being elected Trustees ; 
nor shall any person, either as President, professor, tutor, or 
pupil, be refused admittance into said College, or denied any of 
the privileges, immunities, or advantages, thereof, for or on ac- 
count of his sentiments in matters of religion. 

Sec 8. And be it further enacted, That no misnomer of the 
said Corporation shall defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise, or 
bequest, to or from the said Corporation: Providd, The intent 
of the parties shall sufficiently appear upon the face of the gift, 
grant, will, or other writing, whereby any estate or interest was 
intended to pass to or from the said Corporation. 

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the constitution of the 
said College, herein and hereby declared and established, shall 
be, and remain, the inviolate constitution of the said College for- 
ever ; and the same shall not be altered, or alterable, by any or- 
dinance or law of the said Trustees : Provided, That it may be 
lawful for the Congress of the United States to revoke and repeal 
this act, at any and at all times whenever they shall think fit so 
tj do. 



Seo. 10. And he it further enacted, That it shall be the duty 
of the said Board of Trustees to keep a regular book or journal, 
in which shall be entered, under their direction, besides an account 
of all their ordinary acts and proceedings, all the by-laws, ordi- 
nances, rales, and regulations, which may be adopted by the said 
Board, for their own government, and for the government of the 
Institution ; also, a schedule of all the property and effects, reaJ, 
personal, or mixed, which shall or may be invested in the said 
Trustees, for the use of the said College, by virtue of any gift, 
grant, bargain, sale, will, or otherwise, together with annual 
statements concerning the accounts and finances of the Institu- 
tion. That it shall, moreover, be the duty of the said Trustees 
to cause to be enrolled, in the said book or journal, the names of 
all the contributors to the Institution qualified to vote for Trus- 
tees, with their respective places of residence ; and the said book 
or journal shall at all times be open to the inspection or exami- 
nation of the Attorney-General of the United States ; and, when 
required by either House of Congress, it shall be the duty of the 
said Trustees to furnish any information respecting their own 
conduct, the state of the Institution, and of its finances, which 
shall or may be so required. 

Sec. 11. And he it farther enacted,- That in case any vacancy 
or vacancies shall happen in the Board of Trustees aforesaid, by 
death, inability, resignation, or otherwise, at any time between 
the stated or triennial elections, that then it shall and may be 
lawful for the other Trustees, or any five of them, to proceed, at 
any subsequent meeting after the happening of such vacancy or 
vacancies, to choose, by ballot, any suitable person or persons to 
fill the same. 

Sec. 12. And he It farther enacted, That the employment or 
application of the funds or income of the said Corporation or any 
part thereof, for any purpose or object other than those expressed 
and defined in the first section of this act, or the investment 
thereof in any other mode than is described and provided in the 
second section thereof, shall be deemed and taken to be a forfeiture 
of all the rights and immunities derived from this act, and the 
same shall, thenceforth, cease, and become null and void. 

Approved February 0, 1821. 



TERRITORIAL ACT. 

An Act for the relief of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia. 

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of 
Columbia, That the Columbian College, in the District of Co- 
lumbia, chartered by and organized and acting under the act of 
Congress approved February nine, eighteen hundred and twenty- 
one, may, from the proceeds of any sale of its property, apply 
such sum as may be needful to pay its present indebtedness, and 
place its libraries, buildings, and apparatus of instruction in good 
condition, and execute all deeds needful to quiet the title of 
property already sold. 

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees of said 
College elected May last shall constitute the Corporation of said 
College until their successors in office shall be chosen and qual- 
ified as is hereinafter provided, and may, until then, as vacancies 
occur in their number, temporarily fill them by the election of fit 
persons residing in the District of Columbia. 

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said Trustees shall 
meet in the Law • Building of said College, at noon, on the 
twenty-fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, for 
the purpose of choosing, and shall then and there, or at the time 
and place to which said meeting may be adjourned, elect thirteen 
Trustees and thirteen Overseers, who shall, upon their election, 
constitute the College Corporation, and they and their successors 
shall thenceforward be, and be known and recognized as, the 
Columbian College in the District of Columbia. 

Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees chosen 
at the said meeting in June,. eighteen hundred and seventy-two, 
or who may thereafter be chosen, shall be residents of the District 
of Columbia, and that at said meeting, and at any annual meeting 
of Trustees and Overseers to be thereafter held in said city of 
Washington on the Tuesday next preceding the last Wednesday 
in June, annually, the Trustees and Overseers in convention as- 
sembled shall fill vacancies in their Board, and shall, by ballot, elect 
from among the Trustees two suitable persons, one to be President 
and the other to be Treasurer and Secretary of said Corporation 



and of the Board of Trustees, and shall establish ordinances and 
by-laws, or alter or repeal the same ; and also frame laws and 
regulations for the College Faculty and students in all the de- 
partments thereof, and by ballot elect such teachers, tutors, pro- 
fessors, lecturers, and President, and with such salaries and duties 
as said Corporation may deem proper. 

Sec. 5. And he it further enacted, That at said annual meetings 
not less than seven Trustees and three Overseers shall constitute 
a quorum for the transaction of any business except adjournment, 
and adjournment may be made by any number present : Provided, 
That a final adjournment shall not be delayed beyond one week 
after the time fixed for the annual meeting. 

Sec 6. And le it further enacted, That during the interval 
between said annual meetings the Trustees shall, as now, hold 
semi-annual, quarterly, monthly, and occasional meetings, to fill 
temporarily, as the case may require, vacancies in the Faculty or 
in their own Board, and with all their present powers as modified 
by this act, subject to the ordinances and by-laws of the Corpo- 
ration ; but no real estate or other property of said Corporation 
shall, after the twenty-fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and 
seventy-two, be disposed of by the Trustees, except by vote of the 
Corporation or in pursuance of its ordinances. 

Approved July 25, 1871. 



An Act supplemental to the act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and 
twenty-one, incorporating the Columbian College, in the District of Co- 
lumbia. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
act to incorporate the Columbian College in the District of Co- 
lumbia, approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty- 
one, be, and the same is hereby, so modified that said corporation 
shall be hereafter known and called by the name of the Columbian 
University, and in that name shall take, hold and manage all the 
estate and property now belonging to said College, or that may 
hereafter be conveyed, devised or bequeathed to said Corporation 
by its original name; that the restriction of the yearly value of. 



the property of said corporation to the sum of twenty-five thou- 
sand dollars be, and the said restriction is hereby, repealed ; and 
that said corporation may increase the number of its overseers to 
twenty-one, and the number of its Trustees to twenty-one, exclu- 
sive of. the President of the Faculty, who shall be, ex officio, a 
trustee of said corporation. 

Sec. 2. That the act for the relief of the Columbian College in 
the District of Columbia, enacted by the Legislative Assembly of 
said District, and approved July twenty -fifth, eighteen hundred 
and seventy-one, be and the same is hereby, approved and con- 
firmed : Provided, That this act, nor the said act of the Legis- 
lative Assembly of the said District, shall be so construed as to 
authorize the said Columbian University to sell, or use the pro- 
ceeds of any sale of land granted by Congress to said institution 
for any purpose other than that expressed in the act of incorpo- 
ration, and the act granting any such land or real estate, or con- 
trary to any will, devise or grant of any land or real estate here- 
tofore or hereafter made, by any person or persons to said insti- 
tution. 

[Approved March 3, 1873.] 



TRUSTEES AND OVERSEERS, 

Elected June 25, 1872. 



/%W, SpjAAJUU? V ijCbOYcL 



W. W. COKOOEAN, LL. D., District of Columbia, 
President of the Corporation. 

Hon. JOHN A. BOLLES, LL. D., 
Vice-President. 

Trustees : — 

W. W. COBCOBAN, LL. D. 

The Hon. JOHN A. BOLLES, LL. D. 

WILLIAM GUNTON, Esq. 

De. C. H. NICHOLS. 

The Eev. S. P. HILL, D. D. 

ANDEEW EOTHWELL, Esq. 

The Hon. WILLIAM STICKNEY.^ / /i 

W. F. MATTINGLY, Esq. 

J. 0. WILSON, Esq. 

E. C. FOX, Esq. 

HENEY BEAED, Esq. 

The Eev. J. W. PAEKEE, D. D. 

J. H. CUTHBEET, D. D. 
Overseers :— Pf^^s/jOL Q / /LAJL^ . A * 

The Eev. W. F. BEQAJDJ^JL^&l^lZi^feUd sstegg^a. RjAL^^ 
C. H. EYLAND, Alexandria, Va. / 

M. F. BOUIC, Esq., Bockville, Md. 

T. U. WALTEE, Ph. D., LL. D., Germantown, Pa. 

The Eev. J. W. M. WILLIAMS, D. D., Baltimore. 

E. FULLEE, D. D., 
W. T. BEANTLY, D. D., 

F. WILSON, D. D., 
HIEAM WOODS, Esq., 
HENEY TAYLOE, Esq.. 
A. F. CEANE, Esq., 
C. A. KEYSEE, Esq., 
EUGENE LEVEEING, Esq., 



The Hon. WM. STICKNEY, Secretary and Treasurer of the Corporation. 



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ORDINANCES AND BY-LAWS. 

Article I. — Officers. 

The Officers of the Corporation shall be — 

A President; 

A Vice-President ; 

A Secretary and a Treasurer ; 

All of whom shall be chosen from the Trustees by ballot, at 
the annual meetings of the Corporation, and hold their offices for 
one year, and until their successors are chosen and qualified ; the 
ballots of a majority of the corporators present and voting at such 
meetings being necessary to a choice. There shall also be chosen 
at said meetings, by ballot or otherwise, the following commit- 
tees: 

An Executive Committee of five Trustees ; 

An Auditing Committee of three Trustees ; 

A Committee on the Preparatory School ; 

A Committee on the College proper ; 

A Committee on the Law School ; 

A Committee on the Medical College ; 

And a committee on every other School or College connected 
with the University ; each of said committees to consist of three 
Trustees. 

Any vacancy in either of said offices or committees, in the Fac- 
ulty of the University, or of any of its Schools or Colleges, or in 
the Board of Trustees, that may occur between said annual meet- 
ings, may be temporarily filled by the Trustees, at any duly-notified 
meeting of the Board, by the ballots of a majority of Trustees 
present and voting at such meeting. 

Honorary Overseers and Trustees. 

The President of the United States, the Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court of the United States, the Attorney-General, the 
Governor, and the Congressional Delegate of the District of Co- 
lumbia shall be Honorary Trustees of the University, and may 
attend the meetings of the Corporation and of the Board of Trus- 
tees, with the privilege of discussion but not of voting therein ; 



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and any person who shall give ten thousand dollars to the Cor- 
poration shall be either an Honorary Overseer or Trustee, accord- 
ing to his residence. 



Article II. — Powers and Duties of the Officers of the Corporation. 

I. — President. 

The President of the Corporation shall preside at all annual or 
other meetings of the Corporation, and at all meetings of the 
Board of Trustees, with the powers ordinarily bestowed upon 
the presiding officers of deliberative assemblies. 

2. — Vice-President. 

In the absence of the President, his powers and duties shall 
devolve upon the Vice-President, and in the absence of both these 
officers, upon a Chairman, who shall then be chosen for that 
purpose. 

3. — The Secretary. 

The Secretary shall notify all meetings of the Corporation, of 
the Trustees, and of the Executive Committee, and shall attend 
and keep a record of all business transacted at those meetings. 
He shall issue all notices to committees and others, Conduct the 
correspondence of the Corporation and Executive Committee, 
and have the custody of their files and records except as herein 
otherwise provided. He shall hold the seal of the Corporation, 
and affix impressions of the same to all diplomas, deeds, and other 
papers requiring such impression, conformably to these ordinances, 
and to votes of the Corporation and of the Board of Trustees. 

The seal shall remain the same that has been heretofore used 
by the Corporation, substituting the words Columbian University 
for Columbian College. 

He shall have the custody of the plates from Avhich are printed 
the College diplomas, and shall cause such diplomas to be printed, 
engrossed, and sealed, as may be directed by the Trustees or by 
the Corporation. He shall be paid such salary as the Trustees 
may deem proper. 



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4 • — The Treasurer . 

The Treasurer, before entering upon his duties, shall give bond 
in the sum of ten thousand dollars for the faithful performance of 
said duties, with two or more sureties to the satisfaction of the 
Auditing Committee, which bond shall be deposited with, and 
safely kept by the President of the Corporation. 

The Treasurer shall collect all rents, interest, dividends, and 
moneys due the Corporation, deposit them promptly in a safe 
bank, and disburse the same ; shall make and keep complete 
accounts and schedules of all the property and estate of the Cor- 
poration, and report the same to the Corporation at each annual 
meeting ; shall lay before the Trustees, at their quarterly, semi- 
annual, and annual meetings, and whenever else called upon by 
the Trustees, full accounts of all his acts as Treasurer, which said 
accounts shall have been previously submitted to, and audited by, 
the Auditing Committee; shall keep the various buildings and 
other property of the Corporation properly insured, and shall be 
paid such salary as the Trustees shall deem proper. 

5. — Executive Committee. 

The Executive Committee shall, subject to the direction of the 
Corporation or of the Board of Trustees, have the control and 
management of the property and business affairs of the University, 
and shall perform all such other duties as may be required by the 
Board of Trustees, and shall meet once a month or oftener for 
the transaction of business. 

6. — Auditing Committee. 

The Auditing Committee shall carefully examine all the Treas- 
urer's accounts and vouchers, and endorse upon said accounts the 
result of their examination, before such accounts are laid before 
the Trustees. 

7, 8, 9, 10. — Other Standing Committees. 

The other standing committees shall perform such duties as 
may be required of them by the Board of Trustees. 



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Article III. — Meetings of the Corporation. 

The annual meeting of the Corporation shall be held in the city 
of Washington, at 12 M., on the Tuesday next before the last 
Wednesday in June ; notices of which meeting shall be given in 
writing, through the post office, by the Secretary, to every Over- 
seer and Trustee, including honoarary Trustees, at least one week 
before the day of meeting. 

Upon the written application of seven Overseers, or of seven 
Trustees, addressed to the President of the Corporation, a special 
meeting of the Corporation shall be called, upon such notice as is 
above prescribed for the annual meeting, for the transaction of 
such business only as may be specified in the notice. 

The Trustees shall submit an annual report of the operations 
of the University in all its departments at each annual meeting of 
the Corporation. 

The Corporation, at its annual meeting, shall take such action 
as it may deem needful in the election of President and Faculty 
of the University and its several Colleges and Schools, and in re- 
gard to any and all matters affecting the interests of the Corpo- 
ration. 

Article IV. — Meetings of the Trustees. 

Once in each quarter-year, viz., on the third Wednesday of 
March, June, September, and December, there shall be a regular 
meeting of the Board of Trustees for the transaction of such 
business as may be lawfully brought before the meeting. 

Special meetings of the Trustees may be called whenever the 
President of the Corporation may direct, at which meetings only 
such business shall be transacted as may be specified in the notice. 

All meetings of the Trustees shall be notified by the Secretary, 
by letter to each Trustee, mailed not less than two secular days 
before the meeting. 

Article V. — Quorum. 

In all cases not otherwise provided, a majority of the persons 
entitled to attend and vote shall constitute a quorum for the 



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transaction of business. A smaller number may adjourn any 
meeting - . 

Article VI. — Sales of Land and other Property. 

None of the real estate of the University shall be sold by the 
Trustees except such as they may be authorized to sell by the 
Corporation, and the concurrence of nine Trustees shall be neces- 
sary to authorize any such sale. 

Article VII. — Investment and Disbursement of Funds. 

All moneys received by the Treasurer, except such as are 
needed for the current expenses of the University, shall be in- 
vested or disbursed by him, under the direction and instruction 
of the Board of Trustees ; and no investment or reinvestment of 
such funds shall be made except under such direction and instruc- 
tion. 

Article VIII. — Commencement and Exhibitions. 

On the last Wednesday in June, at such place in Washington 
as the Trustees may direct, and at 11 o'clock A. M., shall be held, 
under the direction of the President of the College proper, the 
graduating exercises of said College, on which occasion shall be 
read, recited, or delivered such orations or other papers, by the 
graduates or others, as the President of the College proper, in 
accordance with the votes of the Faculty thereof, may direct, and 
at which shall be publicly bestowed the diplomas awarded to said 
graduates. 

No persons, except such as are designated by the President of 
the College proper, shall take part in the exercises of Com- 
mencement. 

The annual exhibition of the Preparatory School shall occur on 
the evening before Commencement. 

The graduating exercises of the Preparatory School shall be 
held on the evening of Tuesday before the last Wednesday in 
June. The Commencement exercises of the Medical College shall 
be held on the first Wednesday in March, and those of the Law 
School on the second Wednesday in June. 



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Article IX. — Diplomas and Certificates. 

All diplomas and certificates of Scholarship bestowed upon 
graduates from the University, or any of its Schools or Colleges, 
or upon any other person, shall be signed by the President of the 
Faculties of the University, and by the Secretary of the Corpo- 
ration. 

The only charge for any diploma shall be the mere cost thereof, 
assessed by the Treasurer. 

Article X. — Course of Instruction. 

The present course of studies and instruction in all the depart- 
ments of the University shall continue, subject to such changes as 
may be made by the Corporation or by the Trustees. 

Article XL — Free Instruction to Children of Professors and other 

Teachers. 

No tuition fee shall be charged for the instruction of the chil- 
dren of any professor or teacher connected with the academic 
department of this University, or for the tuition of any student 
for the ministry of any denomination, who comes recommended 
by the Church of which he is a member. 

Article XII. — The Faculty. 

The present corps of instruction, and their present rate of sal- 
ary, shall be continued until the Board of Trustees shall other- 
wise direct, and may be increased by the Trustees, subject to the 
approval of the Corporation. 

Article XIII. — Names of the Colleges and Schools of the University. 

The names of the several departments of instruction shall be as 
follows, viz : 

The Preparatory School of the Columbian College. 

The Columbian College. 

The Law School of the Columbian University. 



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The National Medical College of the Columbian University. 
And no other name or title shall be used by the corps of in- 
structors in these departments. 

Article XIV. — College Laws. 

All students connected with the University, in any of its Schools 
or Colleges, shall be subject to such rules as may be established 
by their respective Faculties, with the approval of the Board of 
Trustees. 

Article XV. — Vacancies. 

The place of any member of the Corporation who shall be 
absent, without satisfactory reason, from two successive annual 
meetings of the Corporation, shall be declared vacant. 



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